Artlog / This Week in NYC

Amanda Ryan

Nicholas Buffon, A Sight of Death (detail), 2011. Courtesy of Callicoon Fine Arts.

This week is a good time to catch some of the fantastic lecture and performance series at New York’s premier cultural institutions. On Tuesday evening, Clifford Owens and Mickalene Thomas speak at MoMA and Israeli artist and filmmaker Yael Bartana speaks at the Guggenheim. If you can’t make it, both are a part of ongoing lecture series, so be sure to check the museum calendars. At the New Museum, Raed Yassin will perform a “multimedia saga” using footage from Egyptian B-movies and vintage Arabian Pop LPs. All day Sunday, MoMA PS1 celebrates the opening of its Henry Taylor and Darren Bader exhibitions with lectures, readings, and food from the critically-acclaimed restaurant M. Wells.

Other highlights for the week include Brooklyn-based Chris Martin’s mixed media paintings at Mitchell-Innes and Nash, Allison Miller’s playful abstractions at Susan Inglett Gallery, and Kurt Tong’s documentation of Chinese funerary offerings at Jen Bekman. Art in General presents three new installations and the 20th Annual Outsider Art Fair runs all weekend at the 7W building. Also, the Brooklyn Museum presents the third installation of its Raw/Cooked series featuring Shura Chernozatonskaya.

For a full listing of upcoming events, check here

Tuesday, January 24

Uptown

Conversations: Among Friends
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 11 W 53rd St

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Yael Bartana
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave.

Meatpacking District

Cliff Watts: Wood, Water, and Rock
Milk Gallery, 450 West 15th St.

Wednesday, January 25

Lower East Side

ISTANBUL’74 Presents Sandro Kopp: There you are
Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie Street